Coin counting, registering, and bagging machine.



PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905.

G. S. BATDORF. COIN COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND BAGGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1905.

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No. 802,551. PATENTED 00124, 1905.

C. S. BATDORP.

COIN COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND BAGGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1905.

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COIN COUNTING, REGISTERING, AND BAGGING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed May 1, 1905. Serial No. 258,277.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLEs S. BATDORF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Coin Counting, Registering, and Bagging Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful machine designed particularly for automatically counting and depositing the desired number of coins of predetermined value into receptacles or bags, said machines being preferably so arranged and designed as to be of universal application in that it is capable of such adjustments that coins of different sizes and values may be passed through the machine and successfully and accurately counted and the required amount deposited into an appropriate bag or receptacle and the number and value of the coins thus acted upon definitely and accurately ascertained. Provision is also made for preventing the passage through the machine in each of its adjustments of any but coins of a given size and value, and a mechanism is provided for automatically switching the coins after a predetermined number has been deposited in any one of the receptacles, whether the same be a bag, box, or other receiver for counted coins, the several receivers for the counted coins being supplied with the amounts they are intended to receive by a continuous operation of the machine and the automatic switching of the coins being efiectedwithout interrupting the movement of the machine after the predetermined amount has been deposited into a bag or receiver. In other words, instead of stopping the machine and the counting devices at the conclusion of each count of a predetermined number of coins I provide means for automatically switching the initial counted coin of the next quota, using the final coin of the predetermined number intended for the first receiver to actuate a register and escapement mechanism to throw the switching devices, and thus position a new guideway or conductor of the switching devices for receiving the next counted coin and its successors and delivering them into a receiver to which the new guideway leads.

My invention consists of the parts and the arrangements, constructions and combinations of parts whichI will hereinafter describe and claim.

in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which similar reference characters indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a Side elevation of a coin counting, registering, and bagging machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation looking toward the opposite side of the machine, with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the primary and transfer registers and their adjuncts. Fig. 4 is a face view of the primary register and its operating devices. Fig. 5 is a face view of the escapement mechanism for operating the multiple guideway. Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of a portion of the table. Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11 are details to be referred to. Fig. 12 is a detail showing the toe end of the lever 20 projecting into the coin-passage.

The proper counting and handling of the large number of coins obtained from the extensively-used slot-machines or coin-actuated machines which vend articles or give information or some other return upon the deposit of a coin of predetermined size or value into the machine and from department and other stores, street-railways, banks, and other depositories of money is a heavy task and necessitates the employment of clerks or others for the purpose, and such persons, unless skilledincounting, often find it difficult to continue the counting for any great length of time without experiencing great fatigue, while errors are likely to arise and do arise because of a miscount. Money in the shape of coins is generally brought to the bank or other depository in bags and is also paid out, when wanted for change, in bags, the coins being counted both before and after receipt by the bank.

To meet the conditions before noted and to facilitate the easy and accurate handling of coins and to automatically register the total number of coins handled and to deposit said coins in predeterminedamounts in receptacles or bags convenient for commercial uses, 1 have devised the present invention which aims to dispense with the slow, laborious, and expensive hand manipulation heretofore practiced and perform the entire labor automatically and in a rapid, efficient, and thoroughly satisfactory manner.

In carrying out my invention I employ a framework A of any desired and appropriate form and material and which frame may include a vertical standard or upright portion A, located near the center of the machine,

and a suitable side standard B, which standard is provided with upper and lower journalbearings a a" for the transverse shafts B (J, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The frame is preferably mounted upon a table or stand S of some ornamental and attractive character which serves to support the bag-holding devices, which if will hereinafter describe, and also supports the motor D, which furnishes the power for running the machine. This motor is herein shown as of a well-known form operated by an electric current from any suitable source; but the specific character of the motor is unimportant and said motor might be dispensed ith when using the counting and registering devices in a handoperated machine; but for practical purposes and especially to obtain high speed and rapid handling of the coins I prefer a high-speed motor and one of the electric type.

The coins having first been sorted by any of the methods now in vogue to separate those of a like size and value from others of different sizes and values aredumped upon the distributing-table E, which is preferably made with a surrounding rim to properly retain the coins upon the table, and said table may have its bottom made of glass or other hard smooth material to facilitate the rapid movement of the coins thereover on the way to the coinconductor. 1 also make that side of the table nearest to the conductor sufficiently inclined, as at c, to cause the coins fed thereon to slide unassisted and by gravity into the hopper end, so called, of the coin-conductor. Before entering the coin-conductor each coin is preferably caused to pass beneath a gage which is designed to allow coins of a predetermined thickness and value to pass the same, said gage, as herein shown, consisting of a transverse horizontal bar or plate (Z, whose under side is so positioned relative to the upper surface of the inclined portion of the table over which the coins glide that true coins of a certain size and denomination may escape this bar, while bent or irregular coins of this same size and value and coins of greater thickness and increased value will be held back from passage to the machine and may be discarded. The table and gage-bar also enable the operator to employ the senses of sight and touch in detecting counterfeit coins, thus following closely the methods usually adopted by banks and depositories of money for detecting counterfeit specimens and prevent their being associated with good coins.

The table is provided with a post or support F, which removably [its a socket or holder G on the frame and is turnable therein and may be swung over the machine out of the way and serve as a protection therefor when the said machine is not in use, said table in either of its positions being held by a clamping or other holding device, as at H.

The inclined side of the table has connected with it whatI term the hopper end of the coin-conductor, said hopper consisting of an inclined bottom 10, upon which the edges of the coins roll, and two vertical sides separated from each other sufficiently to allow the coins to drop edgewise between them to the bottom,

said sides being, if desired, made of glass or other transparent material to enable the coins received into the hopper to be observed. In some instances, as when feeding the coins with great speed, there is a possibility of the coins at the discharge end of the hopper overlying each other edgewise, and when this happens the lowest coin is retarded in its progress to the conductor by a coin or coins resting upon it, and to meet this condition which is observable through the transparent sides of the hopper and to relieve the obstructed coins by displacing the one or more resting upon it I provide means for agitating the obstructingcoins to allow the temporarily-obstructed coin to enter the coin-runway and proceed to the counting devices. Any means for agitating the coins will suffice for my purpose, and as a simple and effective means 1 show a starwheel 11, journaled between the inner sides of the hopper near the outlet thereof and having an exterior button or finger-piece 12, by which the wheel may be rotated to cause its points to strike and dislodge a coin resting upon the coin held at the entrance to the coinrunway.

The coin-hopper is preferably, though not necessarily, constructed with an inclined extension which forms a part of the coin-runway, as shown at 13, another inclined portion of said runway being supported upon the frame-standard, the two parts mentioned being in line and forming a single runway along which the coins roll after leaving the hopper proper. To enable the table and hopper portion of the coin-conductor, which latter term I will hereinafter use to designate generally the entire portion through which the coin travels after leaving the table. to be turned around out of the way when the machine is not in use, I provide a separable connection, and I secure this joint with the two parts of the coin-conductor longitudinally in line to form a continuous channel for the coin by means of a spring-pressed locking pin or bolt 15, slidably mounted in a bearing on the standard A and engaging a socket in the bottom bar of the conductor, or I may use for this purpose any other and well-known and appropriate fastening.

The lower member of the divided coin-conductor includes a bottom plate 16, on which the edge of the coin rolls, and an upper plate 17, whose lower end has a concav d curvature conforming to the curvature of a coinadvancing means, herein shown in the form of a force-feed wheel 18, the periphery of which is supplied with a rubber or other yielding frictional shoe or surface 18, which is de- The coin is supported in the lower end of the coin-passage proximate to and in contact with the feed-wheel 18 by means of a toe-piece 19 on the forward end of a lever 20, said lever being pivotally secured between its ends to the vertical standard A of the frame and said toe-piece extending through an opening in the bottom of the coin-conductor and into the range of action of descending coins. This toe piece is so positioned relative to the feedwheel that it temporarily checks each coin at the lower end of the conductor and it rocks the lever each time a coin is fed past it by said wheel into the switching mechanism for final deposit, and as the coin escapes past the toepiece a spring 21', connected to the lever, returns said lever to normal position, with the toe-piece projecting into the path of the next succeeding coin passing along the conductor. By this construction it is evident that the coins can only be fed singly out of the conductor and into the switching mechanism. Therefore I am permitted to accurately count the passage of each coin through the machine, as I will now disclose.

The lever 20 is connected with an arm 21 on a stub-shaft 22 in the upper portion of the machine by means of a link or rod 23, said arm 21 carrying a spring-pressed pawl 24E, adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 25, whereby said wheel is advanced one tooth each time a coin is forced over the toe end of the lever by the coin-advancing wheel. The ratchet-wheel 25 is the register-wheel, and its surface is divided into as many parts as may be desired. For the sake of illustration I will suppose the wheel to have fifty teeth and its surface to be divided into fifty parts, indicated in the manner common to register wheels, and on the face of the wheelsay about opposite the forty-nine 19) mark-I locate a tooth or lug 26, which serves to transfer the final count of the wheel to asecond register, which I will presently describe. The register-wheel 25 is formed with two ratcheted surfaces on its periphery, with the ratchets relatively reversed, and the lifting-pawl 24 successively engages the teeth of one of these surfaces to advance the wheel one point or tooth each time a coin is advanced over the toe-piece of the lever 20, a retaining-pawl 27 also engaging this same series of ratchets, as shown.

To prevent the possible overthrow of the register when the machine is counting fast, I employ the second series of ratchets on the wheel 25, and I engage these by a second or looking pawl .28, which is pivotally secured at 29 and has a toe-piece at one end and normally out of engagement with and lying slightly above the second series of ratchets, said pawl 28 having its opposite arm curved downwardly and into the range of action of a pin or lug 30 on the back of the arm 21, whereby when said arm is lifted during the passage of a coin from the conductor and by the devices before described to advance the ratchet-wheel 25 a distance of one tooth the pin or stud 30 will during the register of said coin engage the extended end of the pawl 28 and rock said pawl about its pivotal center and lower the toe end into engagement with the adjacent ratchet of the second series of ratchets, and thus hold the register-wheel 25 against excessive throw and consequent possible miscount. The pawl 28 is held with its toe-piece normally out of the plane of rotation of the second series of ratchets by means of a spring 31.

The transfer-register may be of any desired and appropriate type adapted as a totaladder, and it is used to automatically trip the switching devices or the multiple guideway, which I will hereinafter describe. In the drawings I show the transfer-register as ar ranged at right angles to the wheel 25 and turnable upon a vertical axis on a supporting-plate 32. The transfer-register includes a fixed disk 33 and a movable annulus 3 1, circumscribing the same and having its periphery provided with ratchet-teeth. The fixed disk has its surface provided with one or more circles of graduations of any desired number. As shown in Fig. 3, this disk has two circles of grad nations, and the numbering of one of these circles is reversed relative to the numbering of the other circle. In this arrangement the inner circle serves the useful purpose of indicating the number of partial revolutions given the annulus and therefore the total count of the machine, as I will hereinafter describe.

In the upper surface of the annulus is a series of holes 35 so arranged that one of these holes stands opposite each of the graduations of the fixed disk. These holes are adapted to each receive one of the removable pins 36, whose upper surface or heads have inclined walls over which rides a pin 37 on a pivoted arm 38, said arm beingpivotally connected to one end of a link 39, whose opposite end is connected to a member of an escapement mechanism which controls, by means of the registering devices, the automatic switching mechanism for diverting the counted coins from one bag or receptacle to another, as I will presently describe.

Between the primary and transfer registers is a safety mechanism which prevents any possible overthrow of the transfer-register or any movement of its register-disk beyond what is required for the count of a single coin. This safety mechanism includes a toothed wheel 40, turnably mounted on the bed-plate and so disposed that its teeth project into the range of action of the tooth or lug 26 on the face of the register-wheel 25, which tooth is so shaped that it fits the spaces between the teeth of the wheel 40. Consequently as the register-wheel 25 is registering the final coin of a predetermined number of coins say in the register showing the fiftieth (50) coin-the tooth enters the space between adjacent teeth of the wheel 40, and when the register-wheel is again moved by the count of the fiftieth coin the tooth moves the wheel a distance of one tooth and then escapes from its engagement therewith.

Pivoted on the bed-piece is a spring-pressed pawl 41, whose toepieee 42 is also designed to engage in the space between adjacent teeth of the wheel 40, and which pawl yields as the wheel is turned by the tooth or lug before mentioned. Opposing the pawl 41 is a second spring-pressed back pawl 43 to engage the teeth of the wheel and adapted to yield as the wheel is in one direction, but to stop the turning of the wheel in an opposite direction. On the face of the register-wheel 25 is fixed a disk or plate 44, which is adapted to ride in contact with a flattened portion of the back of the pawl, whereby the toe of said pawl is securely held in its engagement with the toothed wheel, and said wheel is thereby locked as long as the pawl is engaged by said disk; but to release the pawl at the right moment in the cycle of operation and allow the register-wheel to be turned by the tooth or lug I construct in the edge of the disk or plate, proximate to the 49 mark of the register, or the mark next to the final mark of a register having more than fifty graduations, a notch or recess 45, which just before the fiftieth or final coin is counted and the tooth or lug 26 meets a tooth of the wheel 40 alines itself with the free end of the pawl 41 to allow said pawl to yield into the slot or recess as the tooth or lug 26 pushes the toothed wheel 40 forward one point or step. As soon as the last coin of the number to be counted into any receptacle has been registered and the toe of the pawl has been made to engage a new tooth of the wheel 40 the disk or plate 44 will have so advanced that the notched or slotted portion will have passed the free end of the pawl, and the plate or disk again bears against the flattened back of the pawl 40 and locks it in its new position, The=object of this arrangement is to so securely lock the register-wheel that accidental movement of this wheel or the momentum thereof due to excessive speed of the machine will not cause an overthrow of the register and a possible miscount, and to facilitate this object the other pawl 43 is employed to hold the wheel against backward movement when the pawl is temporarily unlocked.

The toothed wheel 40 meshes with a large gear-disk 46, fixed to the movable disk of the transfer-register, so that when the wheel 40 is turned a distance of one tooth, as before 1 described, the large gear is likewise turned. As the distance which the relatively small toothed wheel 40 will turn the large gear and its dial may not be suiiicient to give the dial its full movement, I provide means for assisting this movement and completing the full throw of the register. These auxiliary means include a rapidly moving pivoted springpressed pawl 47, carried by a lever 48, pivoted to a fixed part of the frame-standard, said pawl having its toe end normally operating in a rapid fluttering manner proximate to but out of operative contact with the ratchets 49 on the periphery of the annulus 34. In fact, the toe of the pawl 47 oscillates normally over the inclined face of the ratchet-tooth and does not quite strike the shoulder of the ratchet; but when the transfer-register is partially turned by the toothed wheel 40, as before described, the shoulder of the ratchet is brought into the range of action of the rapidly-moving pawl 47, which latter then engages the shoulder and completes the turning of the register. The pawl 47 is connected with the power which runs the machine by means of a pin 50, working in a slot of the lever 48, said pin being carried by a reciprocating rod 51, guided in a bearing 52 and connected with the strap of an eccentric 53, which is fast to a double pulley 54, loose on the shaft B and confined in position by collars 55. One part of the double pulley is engaged by a belt 56, running "from a pulley on the shaft of the motor, and the other part of said pulley is engaged by a belt 57, which extends to a larger pulley 58 on the stub-shaft 59, which carries the coin advancing or feed wheel 18, whereby both the pawl 47 and the transfer-register and the coinadvancing means are operated from and by the motor.

As before suggested, each time the trans fer-register annulus is moved, assuming that the proper holes therein are supplied with the pins 36 and that the machine is to deposit fifty coins into each of the bags or receptacles, one of said pins will ride under the pin 37, and thereby lift the rod 39. This rod carries at its lower portion a lug 60, which bears under the intermediate portion of a pivoted lever 61, arranged at right angles to the coin-conductor, and has its inner end bent and adapted to bear upon the upper surface of the projecting end of a pivoted dog 62, whose, upper end or toe operates through a slot or opening in the coin-passage, whereby as the rod 39 is lifted the lever 61 is rocked about its axis and its inner end actuates the dog 62 to cause its toe end thereof to enter the coin-passage, and thereby check the further passage of the coin next succeeding the coin being counted and which latter coin represents the final coin of the predetermined number to be deposited into the bag. The outer end of the lever 61 also has a bent end, and this end is normally below and out of engagement with the hookshaped end of a vertical lever 63, which is spring-pressed and is pivoted at about its center to a lateral extension of the frame-standard. The rod 39 is also connected to a pivoted spring-pressed arm 6 1, whose outer end carries a single tooth 65, which normally lies in a plane slightlybelow the plane of a ratchetrack 66, formed on a slide 67, extending from and loosely connected with the frame or casing S of the multiple switchway. The pivoted arm 61 also has a bent end on which is pivoted a spring-pressed pawl 68, whose toe 69 engages the teeth of the ratchet-rack 66, and thus holdsthe bar and the casing of the multiple switchway against the pressure of a spring 70, which tends to pull the upper end of the switchway in a lateral direction. The upper end of the vertical lever 63 bears against the toe end of the pawl 68. From this description it will be seen that when the rod 39 is lifted by the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins the movement is communicated to the lever 61 and thence to the dog ,62 to stop the advance of a succeeding coin, and the outer end of this lever 61 is raised and also the outer end of the arm 64. As the latter is lifted the pawl 68 is lifted out of its tooth in the ratchet rack-bar 66, and the single tooth is at the same time lifted into engagement with this same tooth, thus still holding the rack-bar against side movement. WVhen the pawl is thus lifted out of the tooth of the rack-bar 66, the vertical lever 63, by reason of its spring, is rocked about its pivot and its upper end pushes the pawl 68 inward one step and over the next succeeding space between the teeth of the rack-bar. At

i the same time the lower or hooked end of the vertical lever 63 is projected into the range of action of the bent end of the lever 61, whereby it hooks under said lever. As the parts return to normal position by the pin of arm 38 riding down the declining side of one of the pins of the transfer-register the lever 61 acts on the hooked end of the vertical lever 63 and rocks said lever, thereby withdrawing its upper end from behind the pawl 68, and coordinate with this movement the arm 64; drops, withdrawing the single tooth 65 out of the tooth of the rack-bar, allowing the spring to act to pull the multiple switchway laterally a distance equal to one tooth of the rack-bar to bring another channel or guideway of the switchinto alinement with the outlet of the coin-passage of the coin-conductor. Coordinate with the withdrawal of the single tooth, as just described, the arm drops, carrying the pawl 68 into the new ratchet-space and holding the parts ina fixed position ready for a like operation during the count of the next final coin of the number to be placed in a bag or receptacle. As soon as the lever 61 is released by the dropping of the rod 39 the dog 62 is released, and its spring 62 retracts the dog out of the path of the coin being held and again opens the coin passage for the travel of successive coins and which proviously-held coin is at once fed into the switchway by the constantly-operating feed-wheel 18. It will thus be seen that the operation of the transfer of one channel of the multiple guideway to another is done without any possibility of interference from the initial coin of the next quota to be counted, as said initial coin is held back by the dog until the multiple-switch devices have made their complete movement.

The switch way follows more or less closely the construction disclosed in my former application, Serial No. 256,312, which switchway is of the multiple type, which adapts it to the proper distribution of coins in predetermined quantities to the receivers, which may be of any character. The switchway is set at an appropriate incline, with one end proximate to and in line with the outlet of the passage through which the coin is ejected, and its opposite end is designed to deliver the counted coins to the bags or receivers. The guideway, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 6, comprises a casing which is divided longitudinally into a number of independent channels 7 2, which branch or diverge at the lower end to properly conduct the coins to the difierent receivers, and said guideway is swiveled or pivoted-say at '73 whereby the inlets to the individual channels may be brought successively in line with the outlet from the coinpassage. In the present case I show the multiple guideway as having six independent channels, five of which are designed to lead to as many bags or receivers 7 1, while the sixth leads to an overflow cup or receiver 7 1, into which flow coins which are being advanced during the period of changing bags or receivers, as when all the bags or receivers of the series have received their quota of counted coins.

It is my purpose, as before stated, that the multiple guideway shall be within the control of the final coin of predetermined number of coins and that said final coin in its advance.

beneath the feed-wheel shall, through the escapement mechanism before mentioned, automatically switch the guideway so that the channel into which said final coin is intended to enter shall immediately after the final coin of a certain number of coins has entered therein be moved out of line with the discharge from the coin-passage, and the next succeeding channel of the guideway shall be alined with said passage.

When the six channels of the switchway have been successively alined with the outlet of the coin-passage, as before described, the switchway may be returned to normal position by simply pushing it inward until its initial channel is alined with the coin-outlet of the conductor, the pawl 68 allowing the ratchets 66 to slip past it during this return movement and the casing of the switchway turning about the vertical post upon which it is supported.

The machine heretofore described represents one by which coins of a certain size and value might be counted and where the more important parts might be made fixed and nonadjustable. For commercial and other reasons it is desirable to so construct the machine that it is capable of universal use that is, that one machine may have such adjustments as to make it capable of handling and accurately counting coins of various sizes and denominations,thereby adapting the single adjustable machine for all other uses that a number of non-adjustable machines might be put to and make it capable of handling coins from the smallest to the largest sizes. To accomplish my purpose, it is evident that the coin-conductor must have several adjustments to meet the varying diameters and thicknesses of the difierent coins, and the gage-bar of the table must also be adjustable to correspond to the thicknesses of the. different coins, and the mechanisms for effecting these adjustments and rendering the machine capable of counting any class of coins and quickly adaptingit for coins of another class I will now describe.

From the under side of the end portions of the gage-bar project the guide-pins 75, and on the under side of the inclined portion of the table is a horizontal bar 76, which is slotted at the ends to receive said pins, whereby the bar is capable of a guided movement longitudinally. Between this bar 76 and the table are suitable springs 77, which tend to hold the bar upward and which are compressed when the bar is lowered relative to the table-surface, and the ends of the bar 76 are provided with cams or wedge-shaped portions 78, operating in saddle-plates 79, which fit the guide-pins 75, fixed to the gage-bar, whereby as the bar 76 is moved in one direction the cams or wedge portions 78 thereof ride past the saddle-plates and cause the pins and the gage-bar to be depressed against the pressure of the springs 77 and lowering the bar relative to the surface of the table, and when the bar 76 is moved in the opposite direction the declining portions of the cams or wedge portions by riding past the saddleplates allow the springs to simultaneously expand and elevate the gage-bar relative to the table-surface. The movement of the slidebar 76 is effected in the present instance by a pinion 8O engaging rack-teeth on the bar, said pinion being fixed to the stub-shaft 81, extending through the table and having on its exterior the handle of a pointer 82, which operates over a plate 83, which is marked with the several denominations of coins to be counted, and the designations of which indicate the adjustment of the gage for coins of a particular size and value. The gage-bar having been adjusted, it is necessary for the best results that the width of the hopper end of' the coin-conductor should be correspondingly adjusted, and toeflect this additional adjustment at the same time the gage-bar is adjusted and by the same mechanism, thereby requiring but one operation for the two adjustments, I construct said hopper portion with a movable front member 89, which has suitable pins 90 projecting rearwardly and passing through plates or bars 92. The plates or bars 92 are separate from and are movable relative to the back of the stationary member 94 of the coin-conductor, and the slidebar 76. before described, is connected with a second slide-bar 76 by a link 8f, which second bar passes between and is guided by the plates or bars 92 and is provided with cam or wedge portions 95. which operate against the said bars 92 to pull the pins rearward, and thereby move the movable front of the hopper portion of the coin-conductor relative to the companion stationary portion thereof and decreasing the space between the inner surfaces of the glass or other spaced plates which form the coin-passage to correspond to the thickness of the coin to be delivered therethrough and the height of the space beneath the gage-bar. When the operating-pinion 80 is turned by the pointer 82 to move the slide-bar 76 outwardly to allow the gagebar to be elevated by its springs to gage a coin of increasedthickness, the cams or wedge portions 95 'n-ogressively withdraw relative to the bars 92, when suitable springs 96 act upon the movable front of the hopper portion of the coin-conductor and allow it to move coordinately with the elevation of the gage-bar. Thus it will be seen that the table and the hopper end of the coin-conductor are capable of adjustment for coins of different thicknesses, and when adjusted for coins of one thickness will not allow the passage of a coin of an increased thickness.

That portion 13 of the divided coin-runway which leads from the lower or discharge end of the hopper portion it is not necessary to make adjustable, and it suffices if it be stationary, but made of such height and width as to take the coins of maximum diameter and width; but the lower member of the divided runway i. (2., that portion which is carried upon the vertical standard of the main frame and which includes the plate 17, with its curved lower endis made adjustable both in height and width to correspond with the adjustment of the width of the coin-hopper and the elevation of the gage-bar. The a ljustment of these parts is effected by an independent mechanism, as I will now describe.

The vertical standard of the main frame is provided with a plurality of inclined guides or slots 97, and from the back of the upper plate 17 of the lower member of the divided coin-conductor projects suitable lugs 98, which slidably tit said guides and are fixed to a suitable inclined plate 99, which moves over the rear face of the standard, said plate 99 being grooved in a horizontal plane, as shown at 100, to slidably it a lug or lugs or projections 101, formed on the wings of a vertically-traveling nut 102, as shown in Fig. 10.

hen the coin-passage is adjusted in height by the vertically-movable plate 17, the size of the vertical portion of said passage is correspondingly changed and the width of the coinpassage is also adjusted. These adjustments are obtained substantially as follows: The plate which forms the front of the coin-passage has rearwardly-extending pins 103, which pass through the frame-standard A, and at the rear ends these pins are connected by a plate 104, which is slightly separated from the frame-standard and has an inclined inner face, between which and the movable plate 99, carried by the nut 102, suitable downwardlyextending arms 105 of the plate project, said arms having inclined or cam surfaces to engage the corresponding surface of the plate 104 to force this plate and the pins 103 rearwardly, and thus reduce the width of the coin passage. Springs 106 act to force the front plate outwardly when the cam-arms are retracted.

On the back of the framestandard is journaled a vertical screw 107, having an operating-handle 108 at the top, and on this screw the nut 102 is designed to travel when the screw is rotated to simultaneously raise or lower the plate 99, with the lugs operating in the inclined slots and the arms 105, working between the inclined face of the plate 104 and the frame-standard, wherebythe vertical By the foregoing or similar adjustments I am enabled to set the several parts of the machine so that I can almost instantly change from the counting of the smallest coins to coins of the greatest size and to any size between the minimum and maximum by the simple turning of the screw for the conductor adjustments and the indicator for the table adjustments.

The several adjustments of the coin-conductor proper are indicated upon a graduated plate 110, over which a pointer 112 travels, said pointer being a part of a pivoted arm 113, which is connected by a link 114 with the traveling nut 102. The several adjustments of the machine are more or less broadly disclosed in my former application, Serial No. 188,689, filed January 12, 1904.

Having thus described my invention, what [claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-- 1. A machine of the character described having in combination coin-supplying mechanism, which includes a table upon which the coins are received and inspected, and from which they are delivered, means for advancing the coins separately, means for registering the advance of each separate coin, a m ultiple guideway for counted coins. coin-receivers into which the guideway delivers counted coins, and means for automatically switching the counted coins by the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins.

2. The combination of coin-supplying mechanism; which includes a table upon which the coins are received and inspected, and from which they are delivered, means for advancing the coins separately, means for indicating each separate coin advanced. receivers for counted coins, a multiple guideway having branches each leading to a receiver, and means for automatically switching the counted coins by the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins.

3. The com bination with a table upon which the coins are received and inspected, and from which they are delivered, an inclined coinconductor, of a continuously-operating coinadvancing member for directly engaging successive coins delivered into the range of action of said member by the conductor, and a multiple guideway for distributing the advanced coins.

4. The combination with an inclined coinconductor, of a continuously-operating feedwheel supported directly over the outlet of the coin-passage and adapted to engage and eject successive coins, means for indicating the separate ejection of each coin, and shiftable means for distributing counted coins.

5. The combination with a coin-conductor and coin-ejecting means, of means for registering the ejection of each coin, means temporarily obstructing the passage of a coin next succeeding the coin being counted, a shiftable coin-distributer having a plurality of guideways, means actuated by the count of a linal coin of a predetermined number of coins for bringing the guideways of the distributer successively in line with the coinpassage, and means for releasing the said temporarily-held coin substantially coordinate with the completion of each shift of the distributer.

6. The combination with a coin-conductor, coinejecting means, and coin registering mechanism, of a shiftable coin distributer having separate channels for the coins of each quota to be counted, means controlled by the registering devices for obstructing the coinpassage of the conductor after a final coin of each quota of coins has been counted whereby the initial coin of the next quota of coins is temporarily held from engagen'ient with the l ejecting means, and means within the control of the register for releasing said obstructing means coordinate with the completion of each shift of the distributer.

7. The combination with a coin-conductor, coin-ejecting means and coin-registering devices, of a coin-distributer having a plurality of channels for counted coins, means for bold ing one channel of the distributer in the path of travel of ejected coins during the count of a predetermined number of coins, means controlled by the register for releasing the distributer to allow it to shift and bring another of its channels into the path of travel of succeeding coins during the count of a final coin of a quota to be counted, means acting substantially coordinately with the shifting of the distributer for obstructing the coin-passage and temporarily delaying the delivery of the initial coin of the next quota to be counted, and means for withdrawing the obstructing means from the coin-passage when the'distributer completes each shifting move ment.

8. The combination with a coin-conductor, and a coin-register Wheel having an arm by which it is moved, of a lever pivotally mounted between its ends and having one end projecting into the path of travel of the coins, a rod connecting the opposite end of the lever to the arm of the register-wheel, a spring yieldingly connecting the lever to a fixed part of the machine and returning the end of the lever into the range of action of a succeeding coin after the ejection past said end of a counted coin, coin-advancing means for feeding coins past the projecting end of the lever, and ashiftable means for delivering the counted coins to different places of deposit.

9. The combination of acoin-conductor, and

coin-ejecting means, of a coin-registering mechanism actuated by the ejection of coins and comprising a wheel, having reversely-arranged series of ratchets, an arm on the wheel having a lifting-pawl to engage one series of ratchets, a stop-pawl engaging this same series of ratchets, a pawl adapted to engage the other series of ratchets and normally held out l a coin-e ecting means and a registering mechof engagement therewith, and having a portion extended into the range of action of the arm of the register-Wheel, said arm having a lug or pin which contacts with said extended portion of said pawl during the beginning of the lifting movement of the arm whereby the second-named pawl is lowered into engagement with the second series of ratchets to prevent overthrow of the registerwheel.

10. The combination with a coin-conductor and coin-ejecting means, of a coin-register wheel and means actuating the same each time a coin is ejected, a transfer-registering mechanism actuated each time the first-named wheel completes its full rotation, a safety mechanism between the two registers and comprising a member normally held by the first wheel in locked engagement with the transfer-registering mechanism, means for unlocking said member to allow the transfer-register to be operated coordinately with the final movement of the first wheel, said member being again engaged by the first register-wheel to lock the transfer-register before the first wheel makes the initial movement of its next cycle, a shiftable guideway for counted coins, and means controlled by the transfer-register for allowing the guideway to shift its position.

11. The combination with a coin-conductor and coin-ejecting means, of a coin-registering mechanism comprising a primary and transfer register, and a safety mechanism between the registers for preventing overthrow of the transfer-register, said mechanism including a toothed wheel, a lug on the primary register set just in advance of the final registeringpoint thereof and adapted to engage said tooth-wheel to impart partial rotation thereto, a pawl held in locked engagement with the toothed wheel by the primary register and automatically unlocked by said wheel just preceding the final count thereof whereby the toothed wheel may now be moved by said lug during the count of the final coin ejected, and said primary register again locking the pawl in engagement with the toothed wheel immediately after the count of a final coin and before the count of the first coin of a succeeding number of coins, ashiftable guideway for counted coins and means connected therewith and under the control of the transfer-register for allowing the guideway to shift substantially coordinate with each partial movement of said transfer-register.

12. The combination of a coin-conductor, coin-ejecting means, and a coin-registering mechanism including a primary and transfer register, a normally locked safety mechanism between the two registers and auton'iatically releasing and giving partial rotation to the transfer-register during the final count of primary register, and a power-driven constantlyreciprocating pawl for completing the move ment of the transfer-register.

13. The combination with a coin-conductor,

anism including a primary and transfer register, said transfer-register having a series of spaced holes adapted to receive removable pins, a multiple guideway for ejected coins, an escapcment mechanism connected with the guideway, an arm having a member disposed in the range of action of the pins carried by the transfer-register, and a connection between said arm and the escapcment mechanism for actuating the latter to give a step-bystep movement to the multiple guideway.

14. The combination with a coin-cond actor, a coin-ejecting means and a coin-registering mechanism, of a coin-distributing mechanism including a multiple guideway, a slide con- IIC nected with the guideway and provided with a ratchet-rack, a lifting-arm having a pawl normally engaging the ratchet-rack, said arm having also a single tooth normally disposed out of engagement with the ratchet-rack, means controlled by the registering devices for lifting said arm to remove the pawl from holding engagement with the ratchet-rack and coordinately lifting the single tooth into operative engagement with the ratchet-rack, means for projecting the pawl into line with the next succeeding tooth of the ratchet-rack substantially coordinately with the engagement of the single tooth with said rack, and means for exerting a side movement to the guideway, said arm returning to normal position at the completion of the count of a final coin and withdrawing the single tooth from the ratchet-rack and allowing the guideway to shift one step before the pawl again engages and holds the slide from further movement.

15. The combination with a coin-conductor, a coin-ejecting means and a coin-registering mechanism, of a pivotally-mounted, multiple guideway for ejected coins, a slide connected with the guideway and provided with a ratchetraek, an arm pivoted at one end and having a single tooth at the opposite end and normally below the ratchet-rack, a spring-pressed pawl on said arm and normally engaging a tooth of the rack, a vertically-disposed spring-pressed lever having one end disposed proximate to the pawl and having a hook-shaped formation at the other end, a substantially horizontal pivotally-mounted lever having one end disposed vertically below the hook end of the vertical lever, a pivoted dog adapted to project into the coinpassage and having a portion ar ranged proximate to the horizontal lever, and a connection from the registering mechanism for actuating the arm and the horizontal lever in unison to allow the guideway to shift to aline its inlets successively with the point of coin-ejection, and to check the advance of a succeeding coin until the full shift of the guideway is assured.

16. In a machine of the character described, a coin-conductor having a receiving portion with fixed and movable parallel spaced sides,

and a distributing-table communicating with said space and having a gage-bar beneath which the coins pass, in combination with means including a rack and pinion and connected slide-bars having a coordinate movement one of said slide-bars engaging and adjusting the said movable side relative to its companion, and the other slide-bar simultaneously adjusting the gage-bar relative to the table-surface.

17. In a machine of the character described, a coin-conductor with a runway including a bottom and a slidably-mounted top, in combination with a rotatory coin-ejector carried with said top and means for moving the top and ejector relative to said bottom to vary the height of the coin-passage.

18. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a main frame having inclined slots, a coin-conductor having a runway including a fixed bottom and a movable top said top having lugs guided in said slots, a plate member rigid with said lugs and disposed on the back of the main frame, and provided with horizontal grooves, a traveling nut slidably engaging the plate, a coin-ejector wheel carried by the plate, and a rotatable screw for operating the nut whereby the coinpassage is adjustable in height and width.

19. In a machine of the character described, the main frame, a motor thereon, a coin-conductor along which the coins travel on edge an ejector-wheel acting edgewise on the coins in the conductor, a shaft to which the wheel is fixed said shaft provided with a pulley, a shaft in the upper part of the frame and a double pulley thereon, a belt running from the motor to one member of the double pulley and a second belt running from the second member of the pulley to the pulley on the shaft of the ejector-wheel.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES S. BATDORF.

itnesses:

ROBERT D. GUswnIN, G. A. BoLs'rnR. 

